Wire-working tool.



PATBNTED FEB. 6, 1906.

G. S. MAJ'UR S. WIRE WORKING TOOL.

APPLIUATiGK FILED me. 29. 1904.

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Rttomegg UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 6, 1906.

Application filed December 29, 1904. Serial No. 238,851.

To (all whom it DMZ-y concern:

Be it known that I, Gnonon S. MAJons, a citizen of the United States, residin at Schell City, in the county of Vernon an State of Missouri, have invented a new anduseful Wire-Working Tool, of which the following is a specification.

. his invention relates to an improved wireworking tool, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and eflicient device of this character particularly adapted for binding or securely fastening wood or metallic stays between the terminal posts in a line of fencing.

, The invention consists in the construct-ion and novel combination and arran. enient of arts hereinafter fully described, 1 lustrated 1n the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advanta es of the invention.

11 the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a wire-working tool constructed in accordance with my invention, showing the pivoted jaws in open position. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the jaws closed.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

Referrin in detail to the drawin s, 1 and 2 designate t e handle portions of t e tool, 3 and 4 the inwardly-extending jaws, and 5 the rod or pin for pivotally connecting the two members. The jaws 3 and 4 are each provided on one side thereof with laterally-extending lugs 6, which act as a wire-cutter and serve to sever the wire when the latter is introduced between said lugs and the jaws 3 and 4 moved to closed position. The 'aw 3 is also provided with a longitudinal slot 7, extending inwardly from the cutting edge 8 and communicating with a transversely-disposed slot 9, said slot being adapted to receive one end of the wire when the tool is used for bending or otherwise twisting the same. The cutting edge 8 is cut away on one side of the slot 7, as indicated at 8", for con venience in assing the wire into the slot 9. A semicircu ar opening or wire-seat 10 is degree.

formed in the cutting edge 11 of the pivoted jaw 4 for coaction with the slot 9, and arranged slightly in the rear and to one side of the wire-seat 10 is an e e or opening 12, adapted to receive the wire efore passin the same around the stay to be tied. The s ots 7 and 9, the eye or opening 12, and the wire-seat 10 are preferably countersunk, as shown, thus providing rounded edges which prevent the wire from being cut or severed during the twistin OPGIHIJOII. An opening 13 is referably ormed in the jaw 4 at the rear 0 the wire=seat 10 and in transverse aiinernent with the opening or eye 12, and communicating with the opening 13 is a slot 14, which extends to the adjacent side edge of the jaw 4, as shown. The opening 13 and slot 14 may be used in connection with the eye 12 for twisting the wire when for any reason it is found inconvenient to use the slot 7 in the 'aw 3, or,if desired,said slot and opening may 6 entirel dis ensed with.

On the hand e portion 2 there is provided a wire ratchet 1 5, said ratchet being preferably of the usual winding-drum type, as shown, and designed to tighten or exert a tension on the .wire preparatory to twisting the same around the stay or other article to be fastened.

In o oration the wire is passed upwardly through the e e or opening 12, thence around the article to e bound therewith, and thence through slot 9, into which the wire easily passes, owi to the cut-away portion 8 of the jaw 3. desired to obtain a greater tension n on the wire in twisting the same, one end 0 the wire is fastened to the ratchet 15 and the latter operated by means of a crank or wrench, thereby winding the wire on the drum and tightening said wire to the desired The 'aws are then partially closed and the tool given several turns, thus twisting the ad'acent ends of the wire, when the article will be securely bound. The jaws 3 and 4 are then opened and the wire in the slot 9 released, after which said jaws are closed to their full extent, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, thereby causing the cutting edges of the latter to cut or sever the wire.

While I have described the tool as being particularly adapted for scouring stays in a ine of fencing, it is obvious that the device may be used with e ually good results for twisting wires on insu ators or bending wires around boxes, barrels, bales, and the like, or for pulling staples or nails.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. In a wire-working tool, a pair of ivoted jaws, one of which is provided with a on imdinal slot adapted to receive one end 0' the wire to be twisted and the adjacent jaw with a wire-seat for coaction with said slot, there being an o ening formed in the latter jaw disposed in t e rear and to one side of the wireseat for engagement with the opposite end of the wire.

2. In a wire-working tool, a pair of pivoted jaws provided with cutting edges, one of said jaws eing provided with a longitudinal slot extending rearwardly from the cutting edge thereof and adapted to receive one end of the wire to be twisted and the adjacent jaw having a recess or wire-seat formed in its cutting edge for coaction with said longitudinal slot, there being an opening in the latter jaw to one side of the wlre-seat for the reception of the o posite end of the Wire.

3. .n a wire-working tool, a pair of pivoted jaws provided with cutting edges, one ofsaid jaws eing provided with a longitudinal slot extending rearwardly from the cutting edge thereof and adapted to receive one end of the wire to be twisted, and the adjacent jaw hav ing a recess or wire-seat formed in its cutting edge for coaction with said lon itudinal slot, there being an opening in the atter jaw for the reception of the opposite end of the Wire,

the walls of said slot, recess, and opening be ing countersunk.

4. In a wire-working tool, a pair of pivoted jaws provided with cutting edges, one of said jaws being provided with a longitudinal slot extending rearwardly from the cutting edge thereof and adapted to receive one end of the wire to be twisted and. having a ortion of its cutting edge adjacent to said s ot cut away to facilitate the introduction of the wire, there being a recess or wire-seat in the cutting edge of the adjacent jaw for coaction with said slot, and a recess extending through said jaw to one side of the wire-seat for the reception of the 0p osite end of the wire.

5. In a wire-wor ing tool, a pair of pivoted jaws having cutting ed es, a longitudinal slot extending rearwardly Tom the cutting edge of one jaw and adapted to receive one end of the wire to be twisted, a recess or wire-seat formed in the cutting edge of the adjacent jaws for coaction with the longitudinal slot, said latter jaw being provided with an opening for the reception of the opposite end of the wire, there being a slot in said aw extending inwardly from the side edge thereof.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE S. MAJORS.

Witnesses:

FRANK MOORE, BIRT WICKER. 

